The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-04-23

good standing are invited to be
present.
We Lowry, Prosecuting Attor-
ney of Hooking county, passed
through Athens Saturday, enroute
to his former home to Waterloo
township.
Athens County.
Messenger.
The miners around Jacksonville
are all making full time.
The scarcest article of domestic
consumption in Athens is butter.
Hurry along with that creamery.
Jacksonville.
Register.
Arbor Day was observed so
quickly that nobody seen anything
of it.
Charley Sisson has been appoint
ed to succeed G. S. Carr as agent
for the G. ii. V. & T. R'y Co., at
this place.
AT the meeting of the Presbytery
at Beverly, last week, Rev. E. Vim
cent was appointed one of the
Theological examiners for Lane
Seminary, at Cincinnati.
Messrs. Wallace and Brooks are
pushing the preparations at their
new coal works vigorously, and ex-
pect to commence shipping in
about two months.
The miners in the Sunday Creek
valley came out on strike last
Saturday against what they re-
garded as excessive docking.
After remaining out two days an
agreement was arrived at and
work resumed.
The work of erecting the build
ings of Johnson Bros. & Patterson's
new coal works at Minker Run is
being held back for want of trans
portation facilities.
Levi Hawk and his wife Lizzie,
a young married couple, late of
Lodi township, were arraigned in
Justice Mintun's court Saturday
afternoon to answer q charge of
forgery. On the oath of June last,
Mrs. Hawk presented and had dis
counted at the First National Bank
here a negotiable note for 800 in
favor of her husband, the drawer of
which purported to be J. Boring, a
Lodi township farmer, and the en-
dorser, S. r.. Clark, of Bedford
township, Meigs county, both of
whom pronounced the note for
gerry when it was presented for
payment. Hawk and his wife
were accordingly arrested at New
Straitsville, to which place they
had since removed, and as result
of their preliminary hearing, were
committed to Jail in default, sever
ally, of $500 and $500. Since the
above was in type Mrs. Hawk has
: been bailed.
Work is about to begin in sink.
ing the Nelsonville gas well an adj
dional five hundred feet, which will
make an aggregate depth of fifteen
!. hundred feet.
Vinton County
: Enauirer
The Corporate authorities have
provided for a new pavement in
/ front of the Town Hall.
/ The first Democratic City Coun-
Gil of Ironton, o., met and organized
on Friday evening last. The Coun.
Gil Chamber was full of smiling
Democrats.
The report comes from Eagle
township of shortage in the funds
of the Township Treasurer, Mr.
Graves, of about $400.
New Plymouth Graphic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bort, of Logan
. were in town Thursday last, circu'
lating among friends.
A man by name of Myers had q
| horse drowned at Union Furnace
Monday morning by attempting tc
cross the creek in a buggy.
Fairfield County.
Eagle.
Peter Hanslein, of Sugar Grove
, has been granted an increased pen
, sion.
Common Please Court Convened
Monday, with Judge Freisner on
the bench.
Hon. William A. Schultz has
, been appointed Labor Statistician
for this district by the Hon. A. ID
Fassett, Commissioner of Labor
Statistics.
Mr.. VIM. Reese, who moved from
this county to Bowling Green, sew
:. eral years ago, is said to have
made investments in real estate
about that booming little village
that has cleared him in the neigh
borhood of twenty or thirty thou
sand dollars.